Conference Schedule:
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Hyatt Place—Champaign
217 N. Neil St.
Champaign, IL 61820
10 am – 1 pm: Registration
11 am – 12:30 pm: Mentor Lunch
Poster Session
12:15 pm – 1 pm
Methodological Workshop
1 pm – 3 pm: Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships
3:30 pm – 5 pm: Applied Break Out Session
Queering higher education: Rethinking grading to support students and faculty
Presenter: Shawn N. Mendez, UNC Asheville
An important part of changing the current climate toward LGBTQ people is encouraging innovation and self-care for everyone, but especially for educators who have an important influence on students’ lives. “Our grading system is broken, yet we educators keep using it,” maintains Linda Nilson, author of Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time (2015). This workshop-style panel will introduce Nilson’s perspective (that grading requires an enormous investment of time by faculty but produces few benefits) and share faculty experiences with adopting specifications grading in their classes.
Social Event
5 pm – 6 pm
Conference Schedule:
Friday, May 24, 2019
Hyatt Place—Champaign
217 N. Neil St.
Champaign, IL 61820
8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast
9 am – 10:25 am: Breakout Session 1
Promoting Change Through Research (CEU)
Family Processes
10:25 am – 10:40 am: Break
10:40 am – 12:05 pm: Breakout Session 2
Community Organizations (CEU)
Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and Gender
12:05 pm – 1:35 pm: Lunch & Keynote
1:35 pm – 1:50 pm: Break
1:50 pm – 3:15 pm: Breakout Session 3
Educational Contexts (CEU)
Adverse Experiences
3:15 pm – 3:40 pm: Break
3:40 pm – 5:05 pm: Breakout Session 4
Behavioral Health Concerns for Trans and Gender Non-conforming People
Invited Moderator: Howard Brown Health Center
Ambiguous Loss Panel
Invited Moderator: Jenifer K. McGuire
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Hyatt Place—Champaign
217 N. Neil St.
Champaign, IL 61820
10 am – 1 pm: Registration
11 am – 12:30 pm: Mentor Lunch
Poster Session
12:15 pm – 1 pm
- Attachment Identity as a Predictor of Relationship Satisfaction, Relationship Commitment, and Sexual Satisfaction among Heterosexual and Sexual-Minority Women (Amy L. Wright, Illinois State University)
- What is chosen family?: A brief qualitative investigation of LGBTQ+ family units (Cole Milton, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
- A Decolonial Exploration of the Intersections of the LGBTQ South Asian Community (Tanvi Singh, Roosevelt University)
- Classifying Sexual Identities Beyond Labels (Alyssa Billington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- LGBT* After Loss: A Mixed-Method Analysis on the effect of partner bereavement on interpersonal relationships and subsequent partnerships (Dr. Rachael D. Nolan and Ronald Davis, Kent State University)
- Transgender and gender non-conforming bereavement (TGNC): A case study on complicated grief experienced and the effect of partner suicide on interpersonal relationships and subsequent partnerships of the bereaved (Dr. Rachael D. Nolan and Ronald Davis, Kent State University)
- Comparison of the Healthcare Experiences and Healthcare Avoidance between Binary and Nonbinary Transgender Youth (Taylor Boyer, University of Pittsburgh)
Methodological Workshop
1 pm – 3 pm: Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships
- Led by Dr. Megan Paceley, University of Kansas
3:30 pm – 5 pm: Applied Break Out Session
Queering higher education: Rethinking grading to support students and faculty
Presenter: Shawn N. Mendez, UNC Asheville
An important part of changing the current climate toward LGBTQ people is encouraging innovation and self-care for everyone, but especially for educators who have an important influence on students’ lives. “Our grading system is broken, yet we educators keep using it,” maintains Linda Nilson, author of Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time (2015). This workshop-style panel will introduce Nilson’s perspective (that grading requires an enormous investment of time by faculty but produces few benefits) and share faculty experiences with adopting specifications grading in their classes.
Social Event
5 pm – 6 pm
- Happy Hour at the Hyatt Bar & Lounge
- Dinner on your own
Conference Schedule:
Friday, May 24, 2019
Hyatt Place—Champaign
217 N. Neil St.
Champaign, IL 61820
8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast
- Coffee and light breakfast will be served.
9 am – 10:25 am: Breakout Session 1
Promoting Change Through Research (CEU)
- Navigating Our Place in History (Rae-Anne Montague, Chicago State University)
- Community-driven Responses to Address the HIV Epidemic among Sexual and Gender Minority Hispanics/Latinxs: Voices from Social Service Providers and Community Health Workers. (Omar Valentin, Temple University)
- Conducting Mental Health Research for Change: The LGBTQ+ Youth Affirmative Mindfulness Project (Gio Iacono, University of Toronto)
- Creating supportive living environments: Evaluation of efficacy (Elizabeth G. Holman, Bowling Green State University)
- Conceptualizing community and community climate to promote social change: Perspectives of young trans people in the Midwest (Megan Paceley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Family Processes
- Relational Turning Points for Parents and LGBTQ Children (Tee R. Tyler, Texas Christian University)
- Experiences of Diverse Adolescents with LGBTQ Parents (Rachel H. Farr, University of Kentucky)
- Personal Faith and Professional Ethics: Best Practice with the Families of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (Sloan Okrey Anderson, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities)
- Student Reflections Associated with Parent-LGBTQ Child Simulations (Tee R. Tyler, Texas Christian University)
10:25 am – 10:40 am: Break
10:40 am – 12:05 pm: Breakout Session 2
Community Organizations (CEU)
- Characteristics and Correlates of LGBTQ-Serving Community-Based Organizations who Offer Services Specifically for Queer People of Color (Natasha D. Williams, University of Maryland)
- A Census of LGBTQ Youth-Serving Community-Based Organizations in the United States (Jessica N. Fish, University of Maryland)
- Latent Profiles of Supportive Environment for SGM Youth in Rural Settings (Matthew W. Austin, University of Arizona)
- Promoting Empowerment-Based Service Settings for Transgender and Nonbinary Youth (M. Alex Wagaman, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and Gender
- An Exploratory Analysis of The Sociopolitical Involvement of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming People of Color (Briana Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Being a Woman of Color, Presumed Straight: An Exploration of the Life World Context of Bisexual Women of Color (Sarah Mitchell, University of Missouri)
- Transgressing Che: Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán, Disability Politics, and Transgendering the New Man in Mexico, 1964-2001 (Robert Franco, Duke University)
- Racialized Sexual Discrimination (RSD) and Psychological Wellbeing Among Young Black Gay/Bisexual (YBGBM) (Ryan Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Masculinity and Mental Health: The Intersectional Challenges of Gay Black Men (Keith J. Watts, Virginia Commonwealth University)
12:05 pm – 1:35 pm: Lunch & Keynote
- Buffet lunch, including meat, vegetarian and vegan options, will be served
- Student paper award presented
- New faculty paper award presented
- Keynote: Dr. Kevin Nadal, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center at the City University of New York
1:35 pm – 1:50 pm: Break
1:50 pm – 3:15 pm: Breakout Session 3
Educational Contexts (CEU)
- School Climate and LGBT Adolescent Mental Health (Sharon Colvin, University of Pittsburgh)
- “I still feel like I can’t quite be myself”: Bisexual Students’ Experiences with Invisibility, Marginalization, and Exclusion within LGBTQ Campus Spaces (Jayna Tavarez, University of North Carolina—Asheville)
- “I’m So GLAAD: An Examination into the Experience of the LGBTQ Student at the HBCU” (Naykishia D. Head, Bowling Green State University)
- Latinx Youth Disclosure of Sexual Orientation to Parents, Friends, and School Adults (Zhenqiang Zhao, University of Arizona)
Adverse Experiences
- Young Transgender Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Latent Class Analysis of Protective Processes (Rachel C. Garthe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Developmental Reasons Sexual Minority Emerging Adults Engage in Substance Use: A Pilot Comparison of Heterosexual and Non-Heterosexual Individuals (Jacob Goffnett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Victimization and Suicidal Ideation Among LGBQ Youth and Students with Disabilities: An Examination of Intersecting Identities (Matthew King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Minority Capacity Framework: Unstably housed SGM individuals and families in rural communities (Jasmine Routon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3:15 pm – 3:40 pm: Break
3:40 pm – 5:05 pm: Breakout Session 4
Behavioral Health Concerns for Trans and Gender Non-conforming People
Invited Moderator: Howard Brown Health Center
- Howard Brown Health will provide a 1 hour continuing education for ALL licensed professionals in Illinois, including, CNE, CME, CE for SW, PT, OT, PsyD and Pharm through the Rush University Inter-Professional Continuing Education Office focused on increasing capacity for Trans and Gender nonconforming individuals. The training will focus on best practices for patient-focused care, trauma informed care, and harm reduction.
Ambiguous Loss Panel
Invited Moderator: Jenifer K. McGuire
- Ambiguous loss (AL) is often described as “here, but not here” and represents a loss with which cultural scripts are unavailable, disrupting relationships and leading to an upheaval or questioning of social roles (e.g., am I still a part of this family? If so, how?). Each of the four papers in this symposium explore understudied identities in the context of AL research while providing support for extending research on AL to new contexts, utilizing quantitative approaches, and focusing on the relationship to one’s self.